US7564923B2 - Frequency offset and method of offsetting - Google Patents
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- This disclosure relates to transmitter digital signal processor (DSP) circuits and more particularly to transmitter DSP circuits in low intermediate frequency (IF) transceivers.
- DSP digital signal processor
- the transmitter portion is set at the same frequency as the local oscillator, which is used for both the receiver and transmitter.
- the receiver needs to have its local oscillator offset from an incoming radio frequency (RF) signal by an amount equal to the IF frequency.
- RF radio frequency
- This offset unfortunately prevents an RF loopback test because the transmitter is always at the same frequency as the oscillator and it is impractical to include another oscillator running at a frequency which is very close to that of the transmitter.
- Such an extra oscillator would require a separate phase-locked loop (PLL) and would consume a large area on a chip.
- PLL phase-locked loop
- the testing of a typical low IF transceiver is currently performed using another chip to transmit to the device under test or use an expensive set of RF test equipment.
- FIG. 1 is a block circuit diagram of a transmitter digital signal processor (DSP) 20 used in typical low IF transceivers.
- the DSP 20 includes look up table (LUT) based Gaussian-filtered Frequency Shift Keying (GFSK) modulator 22 .
- the data 24 is input into the LUT modulator 22 .
- the LUT 22 and a counter 26 that counts from zero up to N ⁇ 1 where N is the number of samples per data bit, is used to look up the samples of the filtered data.
- the data 28 output from the LUT 22 represents an instantaneous frequency of a transmitted RF signal.
- the data 28 is fed to a latched phase accumulator 30 .
- the output 32 from the accumulator 30 is the instantaneous phase of the RF transmit signal and is applied to a sine and cosine LUT 34 , 36 , which is a polar to rectangular conversion.
- the outputs 38 , 40 of the sine and cosine LUT 34 , 36 are then converted by digital-to-analog converters (DACs) (not shown) to create In-phase and Quadrature (I and Q) signals of the transmitter, which are upconverted to the RF frequency.
- DACs digital-to-analog converters
- a transmitter digital signal processor (DSP) circuit has a transmit frequency represented by n-bit data output from a look up table (LUT).
- the n-bit data is outputted to an n-bit accumulator structured to overflow at a rate based on the output n-bit data to output a phase.
- the circuit further has device structured to add an n-bit signed constant to the accumulator to offset the frequency represented by the n-bit data output from the LUT.
- a transceiver on a semiconductor chip may include as part of a transmitter circuit, a transmit DSP circuit that has the LUT, accumulator and device providing an n-bit signed constant to the accumulator to offset a transmit frequency in order to allow a receiver circuit on the transceiver to communicate directly with the transmitter circuit, and thus allowing testing of the transceiver.
- FIG. 1 is a block circuit diagram of a typical transmitter digital signal processor.
- FIG. 2 is a block circuit diagram of a transmitter digital signal processor according to an embodiment of the invention.
- FIG. 3 is a block circuit diagram of a transceiver according to another embodiment of the invention.
- DSP transmitter digital signal processor
- the transmit frequency can be set to be equal to the receiving frequency on a transceiver, therefore, allowing for loopback testing within the transceiver and thus eliminating the need for expensive RF testing equipment.
- FIG. 2 is a block circuit diagram of a transmitter DSP circuit 50 according to an embodiment of the invention.
- Transmit data 52 and counter 54 are connected to the look up table (LUT) 56 .
- the LUT 56 may be a LUT-based Gaussian-filtered Frequency Shift Keying (GFSK) modulator.
- Data 58 output from the LUT 56 represents an instantaneous frequency of a transmit signal.
- the data 58 is fed into a latched accumulator 60 .
- the accumulator 60 is structured to overflow at a rate based upon the data fed into it to output an instantaneous phase of a transmit signal.
- a device 62 feeds a signed constant 64 into the latched accumulator 60 .
- the signed constant 64 offsets the frequency represented by the data 58 output from the LUT 56 .
- the signed constant 64 is represented in FIG. 2 as being a 12-bit signed constant and the latched accumulator 60 is represented as being a 14-bit accumulator.
- IF intermediate frequency
- the circuit 50 is not limited to these bit sizes and other bit sizes are contemplated to be within the scope of the embodiments described herein.
- the device 62 may be structured to be turned on and off.
- the device 62 may have a single signed constant stored in it and when the device 62 is turned on, the frequency represented by the data 58 from the LUT 56 is offset at the accumulator 60 and testing or other diagnostic steps may be performed.
- the device 62 is turned off, normal transmitting operation of the DSP circuit 50 occurs.
- the device 62 may also be programmable such that a variety of signed n-bit constants may be fed to the latched accumulator 60 . Different pre-selected signed n-bit constants 64 may be stored in the device 62 and may then be fed to the accumulator 60 for various tasks. The programmability of the device 62 may extend to programming the signed constant 64 during normal operation of the circuit 50 .
- One application of the circuit 50 may be with low IF transceivers, as shown in FIG. 3 .
- the data 58 output from the LUT 56 may be 10-bit data and the device 62 may be structured to output 12-bit constant 64 .
- the data 58 and constant 64 may then be fed into a 14-bit accumulator 60 .
- N-bit data 58 representing a frequency of a transmit signal is output from the LUT 56 to the latched accumulator 60 .
- the frequency represented by the data 58 is offset by adding signed constant 64 to the latched accumulator 60 .
- the signed constant 64 may be programmed to be a user-determined signed constant that is programmed before adding the constant 64 to the accumulator 60 .
- the device 62 may be preprogrammed with a single value. The device 62 is then turned on to add the constant 64 to the accumulator 60 .
- FIG. 3 is a block circuit diagram of a radio transceiver 70 on a semiconductor chip.
- the transceiver 70 has a receiver circuit 72 and a transmitter circuit 74 .
- the transmitter circuit 74 includes a transmitter DSP block 50 .
- the details of the transmit DPS block 50 are shown as circuit 50 in FIG. 2 .
- the block 50 includes a LUT 56 structured to output n-bit data 58 representing a transmit frequency and a latched n-bit accumulator 60 arranged to receive the n-bit data 58 from the LUT 56 .
- the block 50 further includes device 62 structured to output a signed n-bit constant 64 to the latched n-bit accumulator 60 .
- the signed n-bit constant offsets the frequency represented by the data 58 .
- the device 62 shown in FIG. 2 , in DSP block 50 may be structured to be turned on and off such that when the device 62 is turned on, the device sends the signed n-bit constant 64 to the latched accumulator 60 .
- the device 62 may also be structured to be programmable such that the device outputs a programmable signed n-bit constant 64 .
- the transceiver 70 may further include a loopback switch 76 that connects the receiver circuit 72 to the transmitter circuit 74 .
- the loopback switch may be turned on and off to provide a direct connection between the two circuits 72 , 74 when testing is performed on the transceiver 70 .
- the loopback switch 76 may be replaced by a direct connection 76 between the circuits 72 , 74 .
- a connection 78 may connect to the output 80 of the transmitter circuit 74 , with the connection 78 connecting to an external lead (not shown) of the semiconductor chip.
- Connection 82 may connect to the input 84 of the receiver circuit 72 , with the connection 82 connecting to an external lead (not shown) of the semiconductor chip.
- the transceiver 70 may further be structured and configured to be a low IF transceiver such that the receiver circuit 72 is a low IF receiver circuit and the transmitter circuit 74 is a low IF transmitter circuit.
- the transmitter circuit 74 may be structured to transmit a signal 80 at a first frequency.
- the receiver circuit 72 may be structured to receive a signal 84 at a second frequency.
- the device 62 may be structured to output a signed n-bit constant 64 , having a value that offsets the frequency represented by the data 58 output from the LUT 56 such that the transmitter circuit 74 transmits a signal 80 at the second frequency.
- the receiver circuit 72 can communicate directly with the transmitter circuit 74 , thus enabling testing of the transceiver 70 .
- the value of the signed n-bit constant 64 may be one that offsets the frequency represented by the data 58 by 1 MHZ.
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F=12 MHz*K/(214)
where K is the value of the signed
F=CLK*K/(2n)
Where F is the resulting rate of overflow, CLK is the frequency of the
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